What the heck is even happening?

Ace, She/Her, Autistic, generally anxious.

[charlesoberonn]

[virtu-typhoon]

[scifikimmi]

[captain-starskull]

[charlesoberonn]

[emperorpenguin]

These two fire extinguishers at my work

[edge-complains-and-loves-art]

Had to draw them

[charlesoberonn]

They share the highs and the lows.

[etirabys]

can anyone find me that mesopotamian clay tablet telling you to marry a party girl because she'll bring you joy

[mentalwires]

It's from the "Maxims of Ptahhotep", purportedly written by a 96-year-old vizier to pass on his wisdom to his son:

If you marry a good-time girl

A joyful woman known to her town,

If she is wayward,

and revels in the moment,

do not reject her, but instead let her enjoy;

joyfulness is what marks calm water.

[etirabys]

yay ty. Between the above and the links in the mentions we have 3 translations total

[fatsexybitch]

Happy Wife Happy Life is 4.5k years old

[assortedinsanities]

Other sites also have the "Does anyone have this image?" posts, but only on tumblr you'll find "Does anyone have that mesopotamien clay tablet?" posts.

[orphanedsource]

the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into “inclusive restrooms” and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that could’ve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. I’ve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you

[revcleo]

This is called a "superloo" and terfs are actively trying to steal this from you, in the UK they changed bathroom regulations to mean new buildings have to prioritise gendered toilets rather than build superloos.

This also upset a lot of architects and designers who like the superloos. They're also typically more like small rooms rather than having doors you can look under.

[dykepuffs]

Always remember that it can be phrased as: "TERFs want you to be legally required to always have to hear and smell someone shitting through the eye of a needle in the cubicle next to you." Or "TERFS believe that your most annoying coworker has a right to talk at you through the stall door and you have no right to avoid them."

[kaijutegu]

Baby Eaglets Are First Born In Chicago In More Than A Century, Officials Say

Eaglets were observed in a Chicago cemetery and at a Southeast Side park this spring, marking a historic milestone.

BABY EAGLES IN CHICAGO!

It's been over a hundred years and they're back, they're nesting here, there's enough healthy food in the water to support breeding pairs, there's enough space for them. Eaglets in city limits again. I'd never considered this was something we could have.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ekjohnston]

i have never felt so valued and able to sharpen a pencil why am i crying

[disparatemind]

I love her so much ♥️

[enki2]

[cute-delinquent]

It would be really cool if someone linked to the study.

[notkattricia]

prev idk if you found it already but to you or anyone else looking for the study you can find it here.

[iamnotlanuk]

[zyzscribbles]

Important question

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Okay but I think these two are onto something

[verbrannt74]

Test subject

(no bird was harmed)

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

[mangonetics]

ah shit they're gaining on us. we gotta jettison some weight. throw all those stolen boomerangs out we don't need em

[supreme-leader-stoat]

On it, boss!

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Bad news, boss!

[homunculus-argument]

A grand fantasy city-state that has developed a consistent, uniform system of "best by"-dates, not just for food safety reasons and to reduce food waste, but to also significantly reduce crime and conflict between residents. The matter at hand is goblins.

Goblin residents of the city are legal citizens with equal rights just the same as everyone else, but their natural lifestyle differs dramatically from the rest of the peoples living in the city. They are scavengers by nature, having no problems with eating carrion, overripe fruits and plants, and building everything they own from things that other races throw away as junk and trash. As the city produces plenty of waste that goblins would love to take and the city is glad to be rid of, any well-organised city is not just a paradise for goblins, but welcomes them with open arms. They save the city a fortune in waste disposal costs.

Problems mainly arise by differing ideas of what counts as "discarded". Goblins are unfairly labelled as thieves, when they are merely opportunistic and optimistic by nature, and will interpret any unclear situation to their own benefit, and will argue "how was I supposed to know that you still wanted it?" over things that looked lovely and were left unattended. And while yoinked items of clothing and other tools are easily returned or financially reimbursed (paying for what they already took is the only use that goblins have for money, which they do not steal), but foodstuff is gone faster than you can blink.

So, the city needed to determine laws for how to define and clearly label when consumable goods are no longer fit to most peoples' consumption, both to help people keep track on how old their groceries are, and also to mark them for goblins. So even though the food that's past the date on it can still be good to eat, it might also be gone by the next time you reach for it.

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[zacsoyama]

I don’t know how but I would like this to be a trending tiktok sound thanks

[dougielombax]

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

GRAVEWHALE!

A vast whale necropolis has been found

In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of

Okay seriously this is some fascinating shit.

And I don’t know shit about fossils, marine biology or ocean research.

Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered

The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.

Fascinating stuff!

[splendentgoddess]

FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG KIDS IN THE US!

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

[splendentgoddess]

Got a hold of the older children/teen and adult versions of this chart. Vaccines for everyone!

[leebrontide]

You all may be sick of me banging on this drum but I got whooping cough in my mid/late 20s because I had no idea I needed an adult booster and I coughed so hard I broke my rib. And guess what? Then I got to keep coughing that hard, but now with a broken rib.

Please get your boosters.

[apricops]

Stranger Things season 1: beneath the superficial image of “peace and prosperity” in 1980s small-town America, there was the painful legacy of countless atrocities committed by the American government in the name of ‘freedom.’

Stranger Things season 4: evil Russians (not Soviets) have sent our All-American Hero to the gulags which apparently still exist in the 1980s and it’s up to us to save him 🇺🇸🦅🫡

[apricops]

There’s probably a term that already exists for this but if there isn’t I’m gonna call it ‘Rambofication’ in honor of its probably most well known instance: Rambo First Blood was about a soldier, John Rambo (that’s his actual name I’m not doing a bit), returning home from the Vietnam war, so traumatized by war that he brought the war home with him to a small town, unable to adapt to life without strict military discipline and hierarchy. Subsequent Rambo movies were about how John Rambo was the only supersoldier tough enough and patriotic enough to kill faceless hordes of dastardly foreign commies.

Ergo, ‘Rambofication’ is the process of a series starting with a relatively nuanced or subversive narrative before its sequels become a shallow embrace of the very narrative it originally subverted. It happens surprisingly often!

[iteration-dave]

Recuperation (politics) - Wikipedia

In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective.

[eroscestlavie]

Everyone envies me for my shrimp lighter

[eroscestlavie]

[thewizardconnoisseur]

Should I be getting ready for work? Yes. BUT

One of the craziest character moments for me last episode (which is saying a lot because there were MANY, but also I am in fact biased) was Occtis raising Dame Gaya Seremai and I want to talk about.

Like he carted her all the way back to Dol-Makjar, cast Gentle Repose on her, and snuck her body into Obrimus Manor with the intent to lay her to rest respectfully (to which I made a post talking about how Occtis was acting more like a true Tachonis than the rest of his family with wanting to honor the dead, and a member of his vassal house at that).

Only for Occtis to get a taste of his family's power, connect and take from the magic of the manor (initiating a level up and some very cool descriptions from Alex), and then at the FIRST sign of danger chose to, basically no hesitation, raise an undead Gaya to fight for him.

Oh babygirl you are your father's son. You may have been the black sheep of your family but you are still a Tachonis and don't you let us forget it.

I know Alex talked about this (I think in his fireside chat), but I do love how he is playing Occtis as not being "immediately reformed" and playing into the messiness and flaws of the character. And I can't wait for (hopefully) other characters to confront him about that moment. My bet's on Julien.

Like yes I want Occtis to get worse, actually. More freaky please. Neutral evil is the best alignment for wizards.